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The woman who says she was raped by her son's juvenile probation officer quietly, shaking at times, told jurors her story during the opening day of testimony Wednesday. She said she had gone out with an old friend on the night of Jan. 11, 2014, and ended up at the Shanty Bar, where she saw Stephen Mills, whom she knew because he was her son's youth probation officer. She said she was stranded at the Shanty after she and her friend had a dispute over his use of marijuana....
In 1958 a Bear Paw cowboy named Larry Kane was honorably discharged from the United States Army and strode into a rodeo career that made him famous across North America, and Monday a memorial to Kane, who died in 2008, was placed in his hometown of Big Sandy for all who drive along U.S. Highway 87 to stop and admire, and to learn about the legend. "It was a longtime coming," said Larry Kane's widow Gwen Kane who still lives in Big Sandy. The inspiration for the memorial, Gwen...
I could have been a surgeon. That is one possibility. Political geography, architecture and anthropology — intense fields of interest. I sigh at lost possibilities. Now and then I think about them, the latter three. Raised when and where I was, none of the above vocations were realistically within my reach. Nurse, secretary, school teacher — my limited options. I didn’t have a passion for any of them but knew the first two were out of the question so settled on the teach...
The town of Big Sandy will be swelling with Pioneer pride this weekend, along with several hundred graduates, former residents, their families and friends, to celebrate the town’s 2015 Homecoming. Rather than hold homecoming each year at the school and small, individual class reunions, residents decided back in 1975 to hold each year a citywide summer homecoming event every five years, said Jolene Williams, one of the organizers of this year’s homecoming. Along with the regula...
A front-page story in the Wednesday’ eidtion of the Havre Daily News advancing the Stephen Mills rape trial said that Mills has stated that he had sex with the woman making the allegations but that it was consensual. In an e-mail to the Havre Daily News this morning, Assistant Montana Attorney General Joel Thompson said that is “100 percent not true....
Havre Police Department Officers investigated a 7:24 a.m. Wednesday report of a bike left at a 1st Street West business. —— Officers investigated an 8:28 a.m. Wednesday report of a vehicle broken into and a wallet stolen at 3rd Street during the previous night. —— Officers investigated a 9:31 a.m. Wednesday report of a wedding ring stolen from a Jefferson Avenue location. —— Officers investigated a 10:11 a.m. Wednesday report of a gun and wallet stolen from a vehicle on 3rd Avenue. —— Officers investigated a 10:22 a.m. Wedn...
Gregoire Insurance announced that Kayla Vaughn has earned her property and casualty license while working for the company. Kayla and her husband, Evan, moved to Havre from Billings in the summer of 2014 when Evan received employment at BNSF Railway. Kayla Vaughn attended Montana State University-Billings and Montana State University-Northern, majoring in business. She has been employed at Gregoire Insurance since September 2014 and earned her property and casualty license in...
UNIVERSITY PLACE, Wa. — My first look at an actual U.S. Open golf tournament was just a practice day. But for someone who has never been to any sporting event of this magnitude, Wednesday at Chambers Bay, for me, might as well have been the Olympics and the World Cup all rolled into one day. Yes, Wednesday’s final day of preparation for the 2015 U.S. Open was a day I’ll never forget. First, like I said earlier, the magnitude of the day was about as overwhelming to me as the d...
The Montana State University-Northern men's basketball team always has an interesting and challenging schedule. But the 2015-16 schedule might be the most interesting yet. Northern men's head coach Shawn Huse recently released the Lights' schedule for the upcoming season, and the first thing that will be noticeably different is the Frontier Conference format. Due to Westminster departing for NCAA Division II, the Frontier schedule for basketball will now feature teams playing...
